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Second round, Game 4 · COL leads 3–1 · 2026-05-11 · Grand Casino Arena

5 – 2Final

COL beat MIN 5–2. COL also won the expected-goals battle 3.5 to 2.4: the better chances went the right way. The biggest swing: Parker Kelly scored at 11:32 of the third, moving COL’s win probability from 48% to 82%.

Shots on goal
34 – 21
Expected goals
3.5 – 2.4
xG share
COL 59%
Home-ice start
MIN 53%

Win probability

The site’s win-probability model, second by second: score, time left and the manpower on the ice. Dots are goals; hover for the swing.

COL goalMIN goal

Expected goals

Running total of each team’s shot quality (unblocked attempts). Dots are goals.

COLMIN

Three stars, by the model

Net goals added in this game versus a league-average player: on-ice goal share, finishing, drawn and taken penalties, faceoffs; goalies by goals saved above expected.

COL
1 G, 0 A · 8:13 TOI
On-ice +0.10 · Finishing +0.82
+0.92
COL
1 G, 0 A · 8:39 TOI
On-ice +0.19 · Finishing +0.36
+0.54
MIN
1 G, 0 A · 8:25 TOI
On-ice +0.06 · Finishing +0.38
+0.42

Rough nights

MIN
0 G, 0 A · 23:51 TOI
On-ice −0.46 · Finishing −0.08
−0.55
MIN
0 G, 0 A · 22:35 TOI
On-ice −0.20 · Finishing −0.34
−0.51
COL
0 G, 0 A · 19:09 TOI
Finishing −0.42
−0.41

Scoring

Win probability of the scoring team just before and after each goal.

TimeTeamGoalCOL–MINWin prob.
P1 9:46 MINDanila YurovPP
from Brock Faber, Vladimir Tarasenko
0–154% → 70%
P2 6:08 COLNazem KadriPP
from Martin Necas
1–128% → 47%
P3 6:56 COLRoss Colton
from Nicolas Roy
2–148% → 77%
P3 9:15 MINNico Sturm
from Quinn Hughes
2–221% → 52%
P3 11:32 COLParker Kelly
from Jack Drury
3–248% → 82%
P3 19:27 COLNathan MacKinnonEN
from Martin Necas
4–295% → 100%
P3 19:52 COLBrock NelsonEN
unassisted
5–2100% → 100%

Every player

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COL

SkaterTOIGANet goalsOn-iceFinishingPenaltiesFaceoffs
Parker Kelly C8:131+0.92+0.10+0.82+0.00+0.00
Ross Colton C8:391+0.54+0.19+0.36+0.00+0.00
Nazem Kadri C16:131+0.40+0.08+0.33+0.00−0.01
Brett Kulak D21:42+0.32+0.33−0.00+0.00+0.00
Devon Toews D28:25+0.31+0.34−0.03+0.00+0.00
Cale Makar D26:09+0.26+0.39−0.12+0.00+0.00
Joel Kiviranta L9:00+0.25+0.13−0.07+0.19+0.00
Martin Necas C21:322+0.22+0.25−0.03+0.00+0.00
Brent Burns D19:47+0.22+0.24−0.03+0.00+0.00
Nathan MacKinnon C20:481+0.14+0.27−0.05+0.00−0.08
Jack Drury C8:461+0.14+0.09+0.00+0.00+0.05
Brock Nelson C17:001+0.02+0.19−0.25+0.00+0.08
Gabriel Landeskog L19:20−0.03+0.33−0.35+0.00+0.00
Josh Manson D14:39−0.06−0.02−0.04+0.00+0.00
Nicolas Roy C10:291−0.12+0.22−0.34+0.00+0.00
Logan O'Connor R14:23−0.19−0.03−0.16+0.00+0.00
Jack Ahcan D7:07−0.23−0.23+0.00+0.00+0.00
Valeri Nichushkin R19:09−0.41−0.00−0.42+0.00+0.01
GoalieTOIGSAx (net goals)
Mackenzie Blackwood G60:00+0.30

MIN

SkaterTOIGANet goalsOn-iceFinishingPenaltiesFaceoffs
Nico Sturm C8:251+0.42+0.06+0.38+0.00−0.02
Danila Yurov R13:061+0.27−0.38+0.71+0.00−0.05
Jake Middleton D12:43−0.08−0.08+0.00+0.00+0.00
Marcus Foligno L8:38−0.10+0.09+0.00−0.19+0.00
Vladimir Tarasenko R12:221−0.11+0.01−0.12+0.00+0.00
Michael McCarron C14:15−0.11−0.05−0.08+0.00+0.02
Nick Foligno L9:13−0.11+0.04−0.14+0.00−0.01
Kirill Kaprizov L24:27−0.14−0.19−0.14+0.19+0.00
Yakov Trenin C12:22−0.18+0.03+0.00−0.19−0.01
Brock Faber D29:191−0.19−0.17−0.02+0.00+0.00
Zach Bogosian D9:26−0.22−0.02+0.00−0.19+0.00
Daemon Hunt D13:17−0.28−0.28+0.00+0.00+0.00
Jared Spurgeon D16:37−0.32−0.32+0.00+0.00+0.00
Marcus Johansson L12:40−0.37−0.34−0.03+0.00+0.00
Quinn Hughes D34:131−0.39−0.26−0.13+0.00+0.00
Mats Zuccarello C19:54−0.41−0.23−0.17+0.00+0.00
Ryan Hartman R22:35−0.51−0.20−0.34+0.00+0.03
Matt Boldy L23:51−0.55−0.46−0.08+0.00−0.01
GoalieTOIGSAx (net goals)
Jesper Wallstedt G58:30+0.30

Playoff recaps: the playoff ledgers have no per-game split of playmaking and suppression, so those credits stay inside the on-ice and finishing columns.

Net goals for one game are noisy: a single goal against on the ice or a lucky finish moves them a lot. See the card guide and Net Goals 101 for how they are built.